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BOTTLE PACKING BOX.

No. 278,761. Patented June 5,1883

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ A. BAIER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-PACKING BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,761, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed March 14, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ A. BAIER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle-Packing Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates especially to boxes employed for packing or transporting soda, seltzer water, ginger-ale, &c., and has, for its object the production of a device simple, cheap, and

' durable, and so constructed that dirt cannot I 5 accumulate therein, or the box be employed for any purpose other than for which it is intended.

My invention consists in placing a roller beneath the partitions running across the box in one direction, and beveled strips or slats upon the sides of the box parallel thereto, so arranged that when the bottles are dropped, neck downward, into the compartments the bulge of the bottle will find a support upon the rollers and slats, thus doing away with the usual bottom upon which the bottle rests, and preventing the collecting of dust or the use of the box for foreign purposes; and my invention also involves certain other novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts and peculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the lower side of the box. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a fragment of the upper side, and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section.

Like letters of reference,wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A is the exterior wall of the box, constructed in the usual manner.

B are the wide partitions grooved into the walls of the box at G, and cut away or slotted 5 at D for the reception-of the crossstrips E.

I Said strips are grooved at b in such a manner as to leave a shoulder upon the meeting edges of the partitions, locking the parts firmly in place; and as there is a solid portion, b, at the center of partition B, not cut away, there is no danger of any of the parts splitting.

F are wooden rollers, of suitable size, passing across the box from side to side, beneath partitions E. They are secured to walls Aby passing into holes therein, or by screws or equivalent means, in such a manner that when they become worn in one place they may be slightly turned, exposing a new surface. G are beveled slats or strips secured to the walls of the box parallel to rollers F.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bottomless bottle-packing box having adjustable rollers passing across the interior 65 thereof from side to side, beneath the partitions, substantially as and for the uses and purposes shown and described.

2. In a bottomless box of the character herein specified, the combination, with adjustable rollers passing across the interior of the box from side to side, beneath the partitions, of beveled slats secured to the walls of the box parallel to said rollers, substantially as shown and described. 3. In a box of the character herein specified, partitions B, slotted or cut away at D, and grooved into the sides A of the box, two-part cross-partitions E, provided with shoulders b at the points of union with partitions B, adjustable rollers F, and beveled slats G, the whole combined and arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of 85 two witnesses.

FRANZ A. BAIER.

WVitnesses:

Louis M. T. WHITEHEAD, ALONZO G. OrucHEsTER. 

